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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner Premieres at Cannes

The four-part, 147-minute Sengoku-era whodunit reframes Kurosawa’s moral concerns in a classical jidaigeki and now moves toward a reported U.S. rollout.

Vladlena Sandu’s Memory Opens Venice’s Giornate degli Autori to Strong Reviews